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an engine room aft, where a one-1/82
cylinder kerosene engine is in-
stalled which drives her along at a
speed of about seven knots an hour
under favorable conditions.
When Peter reached the "Clivet"
that Sunday morning he had with
Proceeding provisions from the schooner
him four Eskimos. Leaving two of
them on board the schooner we started
for Etah in the afternoon, taking
Sigdlu and Hendrik as our crew,
and the schooner's jolly boat as our tender.
Sigdlu was one of the four Eskimos
who accompanied Peary to the
North Pole in 1909. In spite of his
vigor and his prowess as a hunter,
he is quite a dandy, for an Eskimo,
and likes to look well and attract
favorable attention. Hendrik, who
unlike the Smith Sound Eskimos has
a surname, which is Ohlsen, be-